Grow in up I appreciated the dead not understanding the vacated ness of the extreme hippy doom I mean remembering airplane early invthe 60s what went on across the pond was different the beats and animals laded who different but signifigSnt but ate home grown stuff even Neil and peter and Paul and mom Mary speakingbthe weird and Joan Belize should I go on the dead above mist and very mind orientated physical also Jerry and the rest could hold up to anything but there presentation was a San Fran blued folk and grass maybe classic and very creative arty feet one of my local guitar menters back along the old way for me Al from origin knew Jerry and shared a bittle of wine with him one night T one of his improve j acid pertys as he would if u can anyway also mention one of my favorites the cheer if blue persuaision blue cheer heaveyer than heavey related to this but was the potent hard stuff but they could and were if this relation till they got blackbAlled the only other place I would live is maybe a little if Louisiana and haight asbury if I still wouldn't sontnthst times are much the same l y differentiated and i cant reallybtrust peops associate transition with money yeah my own blood money no one gave me nothda in this except mu y parents grand parents and home city and state sweet home over here I gave i hot but im the end it was what UT was a means to just that anyway getting back the dead nice and abbligin to come over fir the big jamberee Woodstock or the bethal art and music festivities anyway this band i may have embraced a little but ivrtlookef plays a very important part in Americana music even if it wad early disco left coast well hippy blues so cool hippy girls the best and their men were frighin giants I couldn't sine their dandels I love love so much all it gave me was hate niw i hate hate so much to love the love I hate to love sounds like a reeked out Donna dumma hippy black girl on acid thang with sly ad her did support imagine those two collaberatein I mean fly argueablely was heaveyer them wonder boy Steven evenbhendrix acknowledged sly I think hed from calico too any way how died so much creative talent come gro. A place like that a big totem end beach reality zone of earth quaked corruption and anything goed.if u can do im glad im here I made my brf hete im gonna stay where at least im some what familiar if u can comprehend this u are a better one than me thanks be to u a sir
I use this song as a bio feedback listening exercise to trigger a wide cheshire like cat shit eating grin. I have listened to this one song for decades because it is long and is two songs and makes me smile from day one. and there are many versions. . PROTOCOL IS EASY.-- I listen to the whole thing straight through doing whatever it is I am doing and let my mind wander see what it brings back. ROck on.
I haven't listened to this for some time. The guitar playing is what we used to call tasty. It has more sweet licks than a lollipop. The jamming has that distinctive dead improv. It's relentless. I saw this band twice, and the music was different the second time. But it was awesome both times. It was like this.
in 1969 I followed the Dead to Porchester's Capitol Theater..i danced through the whole concert! onstage with the band!!! I'm a groupie of sorts..i followed Bob Weir to hotel and spent two nights with him and the entire entourage. this was the most awesome time of my life! they were all so young....oh wait so was I (I'm now 64 yrs old)
Billy and The Kids? I'm sure they were great! Jack, my era ('60s) would have been proud to know a kid like you. Music rules. The Grateful Dead reigns supreme!!
Yup! Bill Kreutzmann from the Dead is in the band. They played Europe 72 and called it Europe Seventy 2.0. Fun times, I plan on seeing many more shows, music is an amazing thing.
I had the pleasure of dancing on the stage too, sweet, hells angel pulled me & my best friend up to on the stage @ the swing auditorium in San Bernardino Cal. early 70's.
Im 17, and I have to say the Dead have been a huge impact on my life. One of my favorite songs (even though china/rider are two songs they really belong togther so I consider them one :D) no matter how shitty a day, I can pop in an album and they pick me up and keep me going, and wow this version just picks me up and carries me though my day. thank you!
Just caught your comment from ten years ago, from a 17 yr old already deeply in love with the dead. Just wanted to know if your love of them is as strong or stronger than ever. I would guess with almost certainty that it is. My love of the dead began at 17, and at 49 the are still the best thing that has ever happened to me. That is what makes them so perfect, they age like a fine wine.
China 🐈 Cat Sunflower & I Know You Rider definitely are meant to be played as one tune. You can feel the 💓 Heartbeat just a tugging back and forth from ChinaCat and then to I know you Rider, it reverses itself, goes part of one tune then back to the other. Just like love and that magical China 🐈 Cat Sunflower, she's always in my mind, she never could be replaced, a chemistry just like this tune and a chemistry called The Grateful Dead we thank ever so much for bringing this to life
nah man, nah, I've listened to a lot of china riders and I always come back to this one! this version represents everything good that can be achieved through music especially during the bridge jam, there are a LOT of good china riders but this is definitely top 10 material
I met some members of a Colorado grateful dead tribute band and one of their shows used this as a poster. I got to talk a bit with them and they said one of the members' wives had drawn the picture.
I saw them play songs live in 19987, 1991 and 1992 that were better than anything on the majority of their live albums. I think their peaks were 1966-1972, 1975 and 1987-1992.
I've been all over I live in New York I was born in New York raised in New York but I spent a lot of time in Oregon and I think the Oregon deadheads are probably the coolest they're all cool but they're just a little more grimy
GD is so creative! Combining RH/JG China Cat & traditional song I know you rider, JD plays magic, Bobby the best rythem guitar, Phil miracle base & I love Billy's dramming.
I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone Gonna miss your baby, from rolling in your arms Laid down last night, Lord, I could not take my rest Laid down last night, Lord, I could not take my rest My mind was wandering like the wild geese in the west The sun will shine in my back door someday The sun will shine in my back door someday March winds will blow all my troubles away I wish I was a headlight, on a north bound train I wish I was a headlight, on a north bound train I'd shine my light through cool Colorado rain I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone Gonna miss your baby, from rolling in your arms I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone Gonna miss your baby, from rolling in your arms Songwriters: Dp / Jerome J. Garcia / Keith R. Richard Godchaux / Michael Hart / Philip Lesh / Robert Hall Weir / Robert Hunter / Ronald Charles Mckernan / William Kreutzmann
I was an amateur freelance journalist promoting independent music out of Oakland CA (from Flint), for 17 years. Good music? Just found it. My dad came into my brother's room one time and found 16oz of pot in highschool. Cleaned it all out and made it look like the police done it. It didn't hit me until then.
yo! i was 18 DAYS old August 1972, my chinese ass was around the world in 180 vietnam days Jules Verne now that is Grateful deadly assassin writing! to think like him now is Phishy implosive universal suspense!
If you think this was great you should've seen them. 2 , weeks later at the Stanley theater in Jersey City. NJ. 3 shows in ,5 nights. Sat in 8 th roe ctr all 3 shows...MJh 7178.
This is NOT the Europe '72 version. The overall texture is slightly different. Take your pick. I like them both, but I like the way the drums sound on this one a little bit better. The other mix is more "transparent", which is good. It's kind of like being asked which one of your children is your favorite. You can't really answer. This one feels a little more "raw", versus "polished". Depends on the mood...
its good..no doubt...but to label it with "one of the best"...is a bit too much...I know most of you guyz are gonna be baffled when I say this.... ...but..it wasn't until late 88....into 90 when china Rider really blossemed...obtaining it's own gravity and becuming a jam that opened up a second set with the groove and grace of controlled confusion from jerrys tiger did it roar!...9/20/90...now that's "one of..if not the best"but really....they're all fuckin good.hes gone and I do miss him...♥
i've eaten the brown acid! its not cool. it makes your body cramp, and gives you the shits! and you wont have an "enlightening" experience. Listen to Jerry "copper-dome bohdi, drip of silver, kimono, like a crazy quilt stargown, through a dream like wind" my interpretation: Come but don't order a drip of silver (silver is the brown acid) come on out like a crazy..... so as you can tell. i have eaten the brown stuff, lol.
Yo...🤐...change your name because you're not getting any respect with that one... and I'm really not trying to be a d-bag, as someone who's been around the block more than once, I'm trying to protect you from ridicule.
sorry champ... he couldnt be more right. spring '90... best tour of their career... the china cat's will steal ur face brotha... this one is relatively weak, i must say.
Why is Chinacat Sunflower such a powerful song for me? Because it reminds me that life is beautiful. Even when it seems disjointed and confusing.
fuck yeah man! i completely feel that brother
It gets me going too. Puts me in a great mood. They f#$king jam in rider. Love it.
You answered a question that posed.
Grow in up I appreciated the dead not understanding the vacated ness of the extreme hippy doom I mean remembering airplane early invthe 60s what went on across the pond was different the beats and animals laded who different but signifigSnt but ate home grown stuff even Neil and peter and Paul and mom Mary speakingbthe weird and Joan Belize should I go on the dead above mist and very mind orientated physical also Jerry and the rest could hold up to anything but there presentation was a San Fran blued folk and grass maybe classic and very creative arty feet one of my local guitar menters back along the old way for me Al from origin knew Jerry and shared a bittle of wine with him one night T one of his improve j acid pertys as he would if u can anyway also mention one of my favorites the cheer if blue persuaision blue cheer heaveyer than heavey related to this but was the potent hard stuff but they could and were if this relation till they got blackbAlled the only other place I would live is maybe a little if Louisiana and haight asbury if I still wouldn't sontnthst times are much the same l y differentiated and i cant reallybtrust peops associate transition with money yeah my own blood money no one gave me nothda in this except mu y parents grand parents and home city and state sweet home over here I gave i hot but im the end it was what UT was a means to just that anyway getting back the dead nice and abbligin to come over fir the big jamberee Woodstock or the bethal art and music festivities anyway this band i may have embraced a little but ivrtlookef plays a very important part in Americana music even if it wad early disco left coast well hippy blues so cool hippy girls the best and their men were frighin giants I couldn't sine their dandels I love love so much all it gave me was hate niw i hate hate so much to love the love I hate to love sounds like a reeked out Donna dumma hippy black girl on acid thang with sly ad her did support imagine those two collaberatein I mean fly argueablely was heaveyer them wonder boy Steven evenbhendrix acknowledged sly I think hed from calico too any way how died so much creative talent come gro. A place like that a big totem end beach reality zone of earth quaked corruption and anything goed.if u can do im glad im here I made my brf hete im gonna stay where at least im some what familiar if u can comprehend this u are a better one than me thanks be to u a sir
I use this song as a bio feedback listening exercise to trigger a wide cheshire like cat shit eating grin. I have listened to this one song for decades because it is long and is two songs and makes me smile from day one. and there are many versions. . PROTOCOL IS EASY.-- I listen to the whole thing straight through doing whatever it is I am doing and let my mind wander see what it brings back.
ROck on.
Love the grateful dead. I'm 62 and have loved them for 30 years.
I haven't listened to this for some time. The guitar playing is what we used to call tasty. It has more sweet licks than a lollipop. The jamming has that distinctive dead improv. It's relentless. I saw this band twice, and the music was different the second time. But it was awesome both times. It was like this.
in 1969 I followed the Dead to Porchester's Capitol Theater..i danced through the whole concert! onstage with the band!!! I'm a groupie of sorts..i followed Bob Weir to hotel and spent two nights with him and the entire entourage. this was the most awesome time of my life! they were all so young....oh wait so was I (I'm now 64 yrs old)
sunshinenblues just saw Billy and the Kids there March 27th, incredible place with incredible music, great experience that I will remember forever.
Billy and The Kids? I'm sure they were great! Jack, my era ('60s) would have been proud to know a kid like you. Music rules. The Grateful Dead reigns supreme!!
Yup! Bill Kreutzmann from the Dead is in the band. They played Europe 72 and called it Europe Seventy 2.0. Fun times, I plan on seeing many more shows, music is an amazing thing.
dude bobby was suuuuch a pimp haha i love hearing these stories
I had the pleasure of dancing on the stage too, sweet, hells angel pulled me & my best friend up to on the stage @ the swing auditorium in San Bernardino Cal. early 70's.
I wish I was a headlight on a northbound train...Wait a minute...I am a headlight on a northbound train.
Im 17, and I have to say the Dead have been a huge impact on my life. One of my favorite songs (even though china/rider are two songs they really belong togther so I consider them one :D) no matter how shitty a day, I can pop in an album and they pick me up and keep me going, and wow this version just picks me up and carries me though my day. thank you!
Just caught your comment from ten years ago, from a 17 yr old already deeply in love with the dead. Just wanted to know if your love of them is as strong or stronger than ever. I would guess with almost certainty that it is. My love of the dead began at 17, and at 49 the are still the best thing that has ever happened to me. That is what makes them so perfect, they age like a fine wine.
I'm 17 currently and I am so glad I've gotten into the Grateful Dead. This music is different, and I love it
china rider cant get enough of it
This was the first Grateful Dead song I ever heard. I was hooked from the first guitar lick.
"So no one thinks anything weird's coming down on them...it's just water from the CRICK"...
Love that; shit, I love all of this. China Rider!
This is from the Country Fair in Oregon. Videos are on Utube and are a very cool video of life back in the day.
7:56 is the perfectly smooth segue into I Know You Rider. Sublime.
I love Jerry’s command of tone as he launches his solo out of Bob’s “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” bridge riff.
And suddenly everything is ok...........
wuss81 thanks for that.
Terrapin station
Yes it is
One of the most powerful performances. You can hear just how much this song evolved following their Europe tour a few months earlier
Always makes me feel good
Still beautiful as ever!!!!!
Love the beginning when the bass come on :)
if everybody agreed on what music sounds like this would be one dull world
China 🐈 Cat Sunflower & I Know You Rider definitely are meant to be played as one tune. You can feel the 💓 Heartbeat just a tugging back and forth from ChinaCat and then to I know you Rider, it reverses itself, goes part of one tune then back to the other. Just like love and that magical China 🐈 Cat Sunflower, she's always in my mind, she never could be replaced, a chemistry just like this tune and a chemistry called The Grateful Dead we thank ever so much for bringing this to life
nah man, nah, I've listened to a lot of china riders and I always come back to this one! this version represents everything good that can be achieved through music especially during the bridge jam, there are a LOT of good china riders but this is definitely top 10 material
I can’t believe they fuckin took the old video down. It showed the band playing the song and the crowd dancing to it too
I met some members of a Colorado grateful dead tribute band and one of their shows used this as a poster. I got to talk a bit with them and they said one of the members' wives had drawn the picture.
Hey there!
my oldest son 38 middle name is Ryder went to the municipal auditorium show when he was 6 months old it turned out to be dave's pick most recent
My son went to his first Dead Show when he was still in my uterus !!!!
my cockatoo jack staw loves this song and dances to it
Long live Jack the cockatoo! I used to have a cockatoo myself. He screamed every morning when the sun rose. My family didn't like that too much...
I've had a cock or two myself. Maybe even three.
I'm up to minute 13 and so far 3 ads breaking into the song. Thanks youtube!
One of my favorite grateful dead songs. Beautiful.
China cat sunflower is a nickname for me. I love this song.
Thank you much, this is "Grateful"ly appreciated for sure. Later, Peace.
Great version of the song
Nothing like a long, transcendent China > Rider. Thanks for sharing !!
I saw them ,1 St @ Folsom stadium in Boulder co. never looked back
fantastic version and sound! Thank you
peace and love
This Brings Back Some Good Memories God Bless You All
Awesome ❤
Thé artist has captured this beautifully.
Thx Bill & co.
Thanks, my wife, Jean, will love this.
always gonna be one of my favourite songs... Long live the Dead!!
Positive Vibes+ )))
Jerry had sooo much talent he could have put horse shoe's on a butterfly, this is sweeeeeeeeeeeet! Love it to death rip guitar man peace jerry☺☺☺
😻 Geat song. Great message..
absolutely beautiful
Best Version please never take it down from youtube
Heavy Tripping In Those Day's! They Wear all Good
I'm on a south-bound train with a midnight wind at my back
Awesome version
I saw them play songs live in 19987, 1991 and 1992 that were better than anything on the majority of their live albums. I think their peaks were 1966-1972, 1975 and 1987-1992.
I've been all over I live in New York I was born in New York raised in New York but I spent a lot of time in Oregon and I think the Oregon deadheads are probably the coolest they're all cool but they're just a little more grimy
the cat is directing traffic
Love China Cat!!!! Puts ya right into Dead space
Same Here 19 Y/O Jerry Freak (~);}
Hope you’ve been going strong for 8 years!
GD is so creative!
Combining RH/JG China Cat & traditional song I know you rider,
JD plays magic, Bobby the best rythem guitar, Phil miracle base & I love Billy's dramming.
That artwork is neato !
Far out, you said neato
Your first in line for your test
the best
Lol..how could any one give this a thumbs down?
I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone
I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone
Gonna miss your baby, from rolling in your arms
Laid down last night, Lord, I could not take my rest
Laid down last night, Lord, I could not take my rest
My mind was wandering like the wild geese in the west
The sun will shine in my back door someday
The sun will shine in my back door someday
March winds will blow all my troubles away
I wish I was a headlight, on a north bound train
I wish I was a headlight, on a north bound train
I'd shine my light through cool Colorado rain
I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone
I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone
Gonna miss your baby, from rolling in your arms
I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone
I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone
Gonna miss your baby, from rolling in your arms
Songwriters: Dp / Jerome J. Garcia / Keith R. Richard Godchaux / Michael Hart / Philip Lesh / Robert Hall Weir / Robert Hunter / Ronald Charles Mckernan / William Kreutzmann
Fair enough I can agree with that.
The "rubbery" water, lol.
yea I had the soap-ioum with kitty-cat junction too... lol and just kidding because it was so good! :)
So crisp
cool poster
I was an amateur freelance journalist promoting independent music out of Oakland CA (from Flint), for 17 years. Good music? Just found it. My dad came into my brother's room one time and found 16oz of pot in highschool. Cleaned it all out and made it look like the police done it. It didn't hit me until then.
We each did 6 years over it.
yo! i was 18 DAYS old August 1972, my chinese ass was around the world in 180 vietnam days Jules Verne now that is Grateful deadly assassin writing! to think like him now is Phishy implosive universal suspense!
Stop arguing over opinions folks...
Where did you read any arguments?
I'd buy that picture if it was a tapestry.
If you think this was great you should've seen them. 2 , weeks later at the Stanley theater in Jersey City. NJ. 3 shows in ,5 nights. Sat in 8 th roe ctr all 3 shows...MJh 7178.
I partied with that cat too, i think i remember u had a LIGHTER? hahaha
for those of you familiar with death is this how we die ?
lol this cat be looking like it directing traffic
I guess I’ve always know, but I always sing along “ Wynona Ryder gonna miss me when I’m gone “😂 mabye too much primus lol.
Yeah one of the best imo too…. 74 was the best for C/R though.
Where can I get this print? So badass. Thank you Jerry
@muleandmagpie on instagram or www.muleandmagpie.com (~);}
never seen that china cat image before. anyone know how i could find a sticker or tshirt? my wife would love it!
Here's a poster of it:
www.redbubble.com/people/gratefuldad/works/22776488-grateful-dead-china-cat-sunflower?grid_pos=1&p=poster
Make one
So fun to see this here!
Does anyone know how or where I can get this piece of artwork (at top of page)?
th-cam.com/video/813RIPRe75k/w-d-xo.html
www.epilogue.net/art/36399-china-cat-sunflower
Sorry, NOT the youtube link.
Hey! (~);} I have prints available @muleandmagpie on instagram or www.muleandmagpie.com
This is NOT the Europe '72 version. The overall texture is slightly different. Take your pick. I like them both, but I like the way the drums sound on this one a little bit better. The other mix is more "transparent", which is good. It's kind of like being asked which one of your children is your favorite. You can't really answer. This one feels a little more "raw", versus "polished". Depends on the mood...
Europe 72 much better
Europe 72 better
@@lowdown4651 Because of studio overdubbing though
it's just WATER, from the crick... yeah, right
its one hell of a crick
Not the Europe '72 version, but obviously similar :) This one is a little more laid back...
aaaaaaaaiyeeeeeeeeaaaaaaah~*
2020?
:):):)
This is one of my most beloved songs, but, by the way, who is the author of the picture?
Where did you find that picture? Because I'm pretty sure I know who created it.
Wt year was this? This is awesome perfection!
Robert C 8/27/72
Seriously? READ, it's all there for you.
Anybody seeing what I'm seeing
You're obviously a late dead head fan hahaha. I think most people will agree with the late- 60's Jam band.
anyone know if thi is the version that got remastered/mixed or whatever and put on the Europe '72 album?
It’s not.
One person on here ate the brown acid...
your opinion Good sir not mine
they did so much better in the late 80's and early 90's
Trying not to be an idiot i gotta ask where are the Old Renaissance fairgrounds? And wow that's a great freaking China Rider!!!
Oregon
its good..no doubt...but to label it with "one of the best"...is a bit too much...I know most of you guyz are gonna be baffled when I say this....
...but..it wasn't until late 88....into 90 when china Rider really blossemed...obtaining it's own gravity and becuming a jam that opened up a second set with the groove and grace of controlled confusion from jerrys tiger did it roar!...9/20/90...now that's "one of..if not the best"but really....they're all fuckin good.hes gone and I do miss him...♥
Whom? Just curious
then gave some to 3 other people
a sweet sentiment but you couldnt be more wrong
i've eaten the brown acid! its not cool. it makes your body cramp, and gives you the shits! and you wont have an "enlightening" experience. Listen to Jerry "copper-dome bohdi, drip of silver, kimono, like a crazy quilt stargown, through a dream like wind" my interpretation: Come but don't order a drip of silver (silver is the brown acid) come on out like a crazy.....
so as you can tell. i have eaten the brown stuff, lol.
yo
Yo...🤐...change your name because you're not getting any respect with that one... and I'm really not trying to be a d-bag, as someone who's been around the block more than once, I'm trying to protect you from ridicule.
26 April 72 is better
No.
sorry champ... he couldnt be more right. spring '90... best tour of their career... the china cat's will steal ur face brotha... this one is relatively weak, i must say.
the dead, specifically jerry... disagree with you sir.